Where is my 2G? - BUG in Ubuntu?

Brian Astill bastill at adam.com.au
Thu Apr 12 11:53:33 CST 2007


On Wednesday 11 April 2007 00:32, Matthew Kuiken wrote:
>  To check, I would try booting in recovery mode, so that
> you are the root user in a console, and home is not being used
> for anything.  At this point, umount /dev/hdb7.
> Change to the home directory, and anything that is in there
> (except . and ..) are files that will take up space, but not be
> accessible while home is mounted.  Deleting them should get
> your space back.

Thanks for your help, but:
In effect, I did as you suggest, only I used FreesBie to do it.
As I said, "Dapper then complained I did not have a home 
directory!" and "Clearly, Dapper did NOT look at /etc/fstab until 
AFTER login!"

At least, that's how it looks to me.

-- 
Regards,
Brian



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